Depressive Screenwriter

Time marched on, and it was Friday once again.

The Garden of Words had been released for a full week.

The film's rating remained unchanged at 9.1, and the total box office reached 210 million.

This box office data might not be significant in the history of Xia's cinema, but it was already extremely outstanding in this summer film market.

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After all, among the three films with investments exceeding 100 million in July, "Superpower Girlfriend" had a total investment of nearly 200 million, but after being released for more than half a month, the total box office was only 230 million, and the daily box office had fallen to only six million.

However, "The Garden of Words" still maintained a daily box office of over 15 million even on weekdays, and even on Friday, due to the approaching weekend, its box office once again exceeded 30 million.

For a consecutive week, it was the daily box office champion in the Xia film market.

Moreover, on the following Saturday and Sunday, the box office once again topped the daily chart with 32 million and 30.1 million respectively, and the total box office officially exceeded 300 million.

However, when Monday arrived, the box office declined significantly, with only an average daily level of ten million.

But both Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki were very satisfied with this situation.

Although "The Garden of Words" had a very high reputation in Su Yan's previous life, its performance was very average because Makoto Shinkai was still a small animation director at the time of its release.

Although Su Yan's popularity in the film industry was also average when it was released in Xia.

But no matter what, investing 40 million in production and distribution was several times better than its treatment in his previous life.

The success of a film is strongly correlated with capital investment.

Good works, without capital investment, will mostly fade into obscurity.

But bad works, with capital investment, can also make a splash in the market.

Whether in Su Yan's previous life or in Xia, the film industry is like this.

At least Su Yan's investment of 40 million can barely be considered as giving "The Garden of Words" a chance to fight for its upper limit in Xia.

Not to mention it being called a masterpiece in the Xia film industry.

But at least so far, the vast majority of its 15 million viewers in Xia think it is an extremely excellent romance film, otherwise it wouldn't have such a high rating.

Nor would it have emerged from so many films of the same investment level during this period.

During the release of "The Garden of Words", the filming of "Tokyo Love Story" and "Madoka Magica" in the Tokyo area also progressed smoothly.

"Su Yan, the local TV station in Tokyo is preparing to invite you to participate in some TV shows next week. What are your intentions?"

"Okay. After all, it's already August, and in less than two months, 'Tokyo Love Story' will premiere. This TV series should receive more attention in the Tokyo area, so let's go for publicity."

"The special effects video of 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica' has been sent over. Su Yan, please take a look and see if there are any differences from what you imagined, and whether you want to modify it."

"Su Yan, three companies want to invite you to be their product spokesperson, and the endorsement fees are quite high. Are you interested?"

A large amount of work is generated every day, and a large amount of work is also eliminated every day.

During this month in Tokyo, Su Yan lost some weight compared to when he was in Shanghai. He only slept for five or six hours a day, and spent the rest of the time working.

After all, in addition to filming, the company's various businesses are also very complicated.

"395 million. Tomorrow, the box office of 'The Garden of Words' will exceed 400 million."

Ayumi Shinozaki idly stared at the real-time box office information on her phone.

"Yes, yes, I understand," Su Yan replied with a smile.

"However, judging from the current box office trend of this film, the total box office will most likely be around 500 million. Even if you don't spend so much energy on it every day, the box office won't run away."

"What do you know?" Ayumi Shinozaki glanced at Su Yan.

Being in the Tokyo area, her dress also tends to be local in style. When the crew had a dinner the other day, she specially wore a light red kimono, which amazed the entire crew.

"This is the first film I've produced in my life! It's not just the release of your film debut. It's also mine... How can I not care about its box office?"

"But seriously, Su Yan, your films are so popular in the Xia market, you can completely create more film scripts in the future~" Ayumi Shinozaki suddenly said at this time.

Before the release of "The Garden of Words", her statement to Su Yan was that even if the film's performance was not good, it could be used as experience to lay the foundation for future new releases.

Now that the film's box office has exceeded expectations, she has begun to have various thoughts.

"Is it that simple?" Su Yan laughed.

"Even for me, inspiration doesn't come as easily as drinking water and eating. But you're right..." Su Yan pondered for a moment and said.

"Since 'The Garden of Words' has performed well... then the company can indeed invest more in film in the future."

Su Yan's lottery draw is very random, but Su Yan doesn't necessarily have to obtain works through lottery draws.

If he needs to produce a certain work, he can directly exchange it with emotion points, the only difference is that the exchange value will be much higher than the lottery draw.

Just like "Tokyo Love Story", Su Yan could draw it with 40 to 50 million emotion points, but directly exchanging it would cost over 100 million.

If Su Yan really wants to specify the production of a film, he can directly draw it if he has enough emotion points.

"By the way..." Ayumi Shinozaki said at this time.

"Aunt Sayaka Sekita called me last night, next quarter, which is October..."

"Sakura TV will also be broadcasting a work with a considerable investment. The investment is 60 million, and the work is called 'Blood Road'. It's a campus-themed TV series with a focus on the bizarre, bloody, and action-oriented."

"Three first-line TV drama stars from Xia have been invited to participate, and the screenwriter of this drama, Shunsuke Akiyama, is also one of the best screenwriters of the previous generation in Xia... Although we have already determined that we can win the Best TV Drama Award at the Xia Flame Awards next year with 'Edgerunners', this Shunsuke Akiyama won this award twice ten years ago, so he should not be underestimated."

"Is Yoshitoki Akasaka still not giving up?" Su Yan became interested at this time.

"The senior management of Sakura TV gave him a death order. He must regain the face he lost on you by stepping on you," Ayumi Shinozaki said here, with a look of得意on her face.

After all, being able to make Yoshitoki Akasaka suffer is a joy to think about.

"So after we confirmed that 'Tokyo Love Story' would be broadcast in October, Sakura TV was also forced to take the move. In such a short period of time, it is not realistic to make a large-investment, high-special-effects S-level drama, so Yoshitoki Akasaka directly followed our investment in 'Tokyo Love Story' and invited Shunsuke Akiyama to come out of the mountain..."

Su Yan nodded upon hearing this.

Screenwriters like Shunsuke Akiyama, who are famous in the Xia industry, may have already created scripts many years ago, and are just waiting for an opportunity to release them.

The script of "Blood Road" must have been polished for a long time, otherwise he wouldn't have accepted Yoshitoki Akasaka's invitation.

"In this way, Yoshitoki Akasaka is completely following our lead and passively responding," Su Yan laughed.

"Whatever we do, he does."

"He has no choice. Strictly speaking, his performance after taking office at Sakura TV is quite good. Leaving aside his character, his ability is very strong," Ayumi Shinozaki said.

"But... letting you go because of him is his biggest mistake. Moreover, 'Edgerunners' also snatched the seasonal championship of Black Gate, he must wash away this shame to secure his position."

"Aunt Sayaka Sekita's statement is that if he cannot prove his value in the next year at most, there is a high possibility that Yoshitoki Akasaka will be dismissed by the station."

Su Yan lowered his head and thought for a moment upon hearing this, then smiled.

"In that case, let's completely plunge him into despair in October."

"No matter how good that drama called 'Blood Road' is, it chose the wrong opponent to go head-to-head with 'Tokyo Love Story'..."

"Are you so confident?" Ayumi Shinozaki said.

"Confident? Of course, from the first episode to the last episode of 'Tokyo Love Story', I won't give this work a chance to have a higher viewership rating than 'Tokyo Love Story'," Su Yan said softly.

"I'm not making a prediction with you, but stating a fact!"

"?" Ayumi Shinozaki looked at Su Yan in surprise.

If Su Yan said that, it wasn't just confidence.

"Although my investment in 'Tokyo Love Story' is not as high as 'Edgerunners', it doesn't mean that 'Tokyo Love Story' is worse than 'Edgerunners'," Su Yan thought for a while and said.

"Didn't you say that the viewership record set by 'Edgerunners' is unlikely to be broken in the near future?"

Ayumi Shinozaki nodded upon hearing this.

"It's not to say that it's completely impossible to break. If the three major TV stations are determined, they will gather the most popular stars in the market, and then they can indeed obtain an extremely excellent script from a group of gold-medal screenwriters in Xia, and then, at least invest over 100 million to produce a TV series, then there is still hope that this record will be broken."

But a quarterly drama with only a dozen episodes, investing over 100 million, this is not the scope of TV series, it can be said that it is directly produced according to the specifications of a movie.

"I think... this record will be broken in October," Su Yan laughed.

"By 'Tokyo Love Story'?"

Ayumi Shinozaki was stunned when she heard this, and then her scalp went numb.

It started again, Su Yan's pre-broadcast prophetic remarks about this TV series.

To this day, no matter how outrageous Su Yan's words are, she will choose to believe them in the first place.

It's like someone who scores 100 on every exam. If he tells you that he will score 100 on the next exam, do you believe it or not?

"You, you!" Ayumi Shinozaki took a deep breath.

"People who are in the same industry as you in the past two years are really sad! I am your partner, and I want to see you flop once. Just saying a word makes me feel so annoyed."

Su Yan smiled softly, but didn't say much.

From early to mid-August, the box office of "The Garden of Words" still led, although the weekday box office was only over 10 million, and the weekends were also much lower than the previous weekends.

But the performance of other films in the same period was even worse.

By mid-August, the total box office of "The Garden of Words" exceeded 470 million.

The praise from media and film critics for "The Garden of Words" has not stopped in the past half month.

The Xia film industry is not a market that only values box office. Good works, even if the box office of the two films 'Gun Grave' and 'Firefly' released in early and mid-July is higher than 'The Garden of Words', the media evaluation of 'The Garden of Words' far exceeds these two.

Many news media, including film enthusiasts, also remembered Su Yan because of "The Garden of Words."

Su Yan's reputation in the film industry is being established.

At this time, two other large-investment films in August are also expected to be released, and the attention of the media and movie audiences is slowly shifting away from "The Garden of Words".

The heat of a movie comes and goes quickly.

Unlike a quarterly drama, at least the broadcast time has to last for a quarter.

And Su Yan's fans, after the heat of "The Garden of Words" dissipated, their attention immediately turned to Su Yan's new drama.

"Tokyo Love Story"!

What kind of TV series will it be?